Bug 1342889

Summary:	unable to install desktop environments
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	steveboss111
Component:	dnf	Assignee:	rpm-software-management
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	24	CC:	ignatenko, jsilhan, mluscon, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, steveboss111, vmukhame
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Description steveboss111 2016-06-06 04:05:14 UTC

Description of problem: attempting to install desktop environments on top of gnome in Fedora 24 workstation fails with "package initial-setup-gui-0.3.40-1.fc24.x86_64 requires anaconda-gui >= 24.0, but none of the providers can be installed"


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How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.sudo dnf install @Mate-desktop
2.enter password and confirm installation
3.log out and attempt to log in and change to mate desktop

Actual results: immediately gnome-terminal spits out the following:
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Error: package initial-setup-gui-0.3.40-1.fc24.x86_64 requires anaconda-gui >= 24.0, but none of the providers can be installed
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages)

Attempting to try again indicates mate desktop is already installed, however logging out and back in, there is no option to change to mate desktop.


Expected results: a load of mate applications and utilities should be installed and upon log on there should be the option to switch to mate desktop


Additional info: may be related to bugs 1340059 and 1339742 and 1337731.

Comment 1 Igor Gnatenko 2016-06-06 09:46:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1339742 ***

Comment 2 steveboss111 2016-06-07 04:53:36 UTC

That bug 1339742 says it is fixed, but I still cannot install Mate-desktop in Fedora 24... What is the answer?

Comment 3 steveboss111 2016-06-08 04:36:41 UTC

Tried again to install @mate-desktop from Fedora 24 Server with same failure. Then tried with the dnf suggested --allowerasing option. Still says mate-desktop is already installed. If nothing else, this is false and a bug in dnf because nothing from mate-desktop was installed. I then dnf remove @mate-desktop. dnf says no packages marked for removal... then start from scratch with dnf --allowerasing install @mate-desktop and now it works but with several packages marked for downgrade.

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-07-08 09:30:51 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.